Dear friends of NCSE,
Promising news on the Texas textbook front. The NGSS avoid a potential
obstacle in Kentucky. And signs, if equivocal signs, of progress for
South Carolina's state science standards: a reaction and a report.

Dear friends of NCSE,
A new issue of Reports of the NCSE. A Nobel Prize for a member of
NCSE. NCSE's Glenn Branch discusses creationist abuse of genetics in
the pages of GeneWatch. And a preview of the second edition of Carl
Zimmer's The Tangled Bank.

Dear friends of NCSE,
NCSE's Glenn Branch discusses Kentucky's reaction to creationists in
Evolution: Education and Outreach. NCSE needs your help in planning
for a series of on-line activist trainings. The New York Times reports
on the textbook adoption process in Texas. A new survey investigates
attitudes toward climate in rural Nebraska. And antievolutionists file
suit over Kansas's adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards.

Dear friends of NCSE,
NCSE's Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott discuss creationist legends
about paleoanthropology in Evolution: Education and Outreach. A survey
assesses the attitudes of Texans to climate change. In the pages of
Scientific American, NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott and Minda Berbeco warn
about the threats to climate education. Barbara Forrest alerts
Pennsylvania about the prospective antiscience bill on the horizon.
And NESCent's Darwin Day Roadshow is accepting applications.

Dear friends of NCSE,
A bill targeting the Next Generation Science Standards is introduced
in Michigan, and climate is the reason. A survey assesses the
attitudes of Ohioans to climate change. The Kansas Republican Party
adopts a resolution opposing the NGSS, while Kentucky's largest
newspaper applauds the state's decision to adopt the NGSS. And in the
pages of BioScience, NCSE's Glenn Branch urges biologists to help to
defend the teaching of climate science.

Dear friends of NCSE,
The Next Generation Science Standards are adopted in Kentucky -- but
for a moment it looked as though they might not be. A new poll
addresses public opinion on climate among Californians. Textbooks are
under attack by science deniers in Texas. And California is the sixth
state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards.

RSS Syndication

Antievolutionists Say the Darndest Things

Antievolutionists often express outrage over alleged incivility from those who oppose their efforts to evade the establishment clause of the First Amendment. But they have no difficulty in dishing out the abuse themselves. Here is a sample from the Invidious Comparisons thread that documents egregious behavior on the part of the religious antievolution advocates.

IDC advocate Phillip E. Johnson:

Gould’s uncomfortable situation reminds me of the self-created predicament of Mikhail Gorbachev in the last years of the Soviet Empire. Gorbachev recognized that something had gone wrong with the Communist system, but thought that the system itself could be preserved if it was reformed. His democratic friends warned him that the Marxist fundamentalists would inevitably turn against him, but he was unwilling to endanger his position in the ruling elite by following his own logic to its necessary conclusion. Gould, like Gorbachev, deserves immense credit for bringing glasnost to a closed society of dogmatists. And, like Gorbachev, he lives on as a sad reminder of what happens to those who lack the nerve to make a clean break with a dying theory.